I’ve been squatting on this story for a while now. It’s been near 7 months since I visited Finch Custom Styled Cycles in Pontiac Michigan with Meddling Editor Paul Holdsworth and to be completely honest, I haven’t had a clue how to tell the story.

So I will just tell of the visit and let the images fill in the rest, chink the gaps, so to speak. Holdsworth and I were meandering aimlessly with a clear purpose in mind during our visit to Michigan. Seeing luminaries like Bert & Lisa Baker, Greg Gates from Gates Performance, Evan from Plymouth Cycle & Speed, Gary & Julie from Kustoms Inc were planned stops and there was one special visit I asked Paul to set up – and that was one to Ron Finch’s shop/ house/ art gallery/ land of wonder. I had a pretty clear agenda with most of the stops we’d made up until that point, looking for bikes, insight, wisdom and interest in working together and discussing projects – but the visit to Finch was a lone exception……

to read the rest of the story, go get the JAN issue of IronWorks!

Images & Words:                    Stephen Berner